Because that art had no more worlds than one.
And when he saw that he through all had past,
He dy'd, lest he should idle grow at last."
Cowley, On the Death of Sir Henry Wooton, page 6.: Lond. 1668, fol.
And with Dr. Johnson's sixth line—
"Panting Time toil'd after him in vain,"
we may, I think, compare Cowley's description of King David's earlier years:
"Bless me! how swift and growing was his wit!
The wings of Time flag'd dully after it."
Davideis, lib. iii. p. 92.